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While celebrating winning the 1985 World Series, Kansas City Royals' third baseman George Brett sweeps pitcher Bret Saberhagen off his feet as first baseman Steve Balboni rushes the mound to share the moment. 

After flames and falling timbers forced them from the building, firefighters can only watch as an inferno consumes the 101-year old First Presbyterian Church in Gardner, KS. 

Miami County Sheriff's detective Bob Van Goethem shoots robbery suspect Gail Wells in the arm after missing in an attempt to shoot the man's 9mm pistol off the dashboard of a stolen taxi. After being stopped at a police roadblock, Wells threatened to kill himself before being talking into placing the gun on the dashboard. 

Brain Decavele flies through the air after being bucked off a horse named Wiz-Bang during the youth rodeo at the Johnson County Fair. 

Joel Casamayor, former 1992 Olympic gold medalist for Cuba, hoist the Cuban flag overhead as he is carried around the ring after winning the WBA world superfeatherweight championship

A thoroughbred mare takes her twin foals for a frolic at a Wichita ranch.

Three pals hang out together during an evening at the Johnson County Fair.

A defendant testifies how he held a .38 caliber snub-nose revolver to his own neck before the fatal shooting of his wife. He maintained that the shooting was not intentional and happened while threatening suicide after leaving of his wife's affairs. He was found guilty of second-degree murder. 

A firefighter walks the perimeter of a Johnson County barn as it burns to the ground.

After presidential hopeful Gary Hart's candidacy went down in flames, he was given a hero's welcome in his former hometown of Ottawa, KS. He and high school classmate Walt Dingle point to a familiar face during a downtown parade in honor of their 30th high school class reunion. 

Kansas School for the Deaf student Ashley Graves feels the vibrations of music by sticking her head inside a trombone played by fifth-grader James Lawrence. 

A rear tire explodes from the side of a blazing camper as an off-duty Gardner Rural firefighter moves a hose into position. 

A woman checks her lipstick before going on-stage for a play performed by the Olathe Community Theater Association. 

A LifeFlight helicopter comes in for a landing while rescuers work to free the injured driver from a roll-over accident in Johnson County, KS. 

Rescuers work to extricate accident victims following a freak April snowstorm. 

Born blind, piano tuner Dick Ephraums first must tune his ear before he tunes a piano. 

A Kansas Highway Patrolman investigates an accident where a semi-truck load of watermelons overturned along I-35 Highway.